[Short Reviews]

Abstract

THIS sheaf of loose leaves, perforated for filing, comprises notes and hints on dissection, interleaved with sheets for drawings. The type method is employed, the range being somewhat similar to that of a first-year course in zoology in Great Britain, with the notable absence of a mammal. There are questions on each type, and suggestions for demonstrating various points. Outline drawings and schematic sections have been printed, and the student is expected to fill in the detail. How far this will encourage the student to scamp genuine observation is a debatable point, and most zoologists in Great Britain would consider it inadvisable to do too much for the student, however much time and labour for the teacher are saved thereby. The frog's skull, for example, has been drawn with every bone outlined, and all the student need do is insert the names and send in his sheet to be marked. The author aims at making the student “rely on his own judgment”. Surely it is equally important to stimulate and train his powers of observation.

Laboratory Outline for General Zoology

By Prof. George Edwin Potter. Pp. 276. (London: Henry Kimpton, 1939,) 8s. 6d. net.